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An 'Evening With Marilyn Horne' Set

A blue-ribbon crowd will be on hand for the "Evening With Marilyn Horne" concert Saturday evening in Bovard Auditorium celebrating the centennial of the USC School of Music.

Pre-concert, the school's dean, Dr. William Thomson, and his wife Betty, host an on-campus dinner in Hancock Memorial Museum for honorary board members and benefactors. Philanthropist Mrs. G. Allan Hancock and her guest, George C. Page, honorary board member and USC trustee, will attend. So will opera devotee Flora Laney Thornton, Virginia and Simon Ramo, Margaret Nee, the Roger Stewarts of Tucson, Ariz. (she was Marilyn Horne's roommate when both were USC music students), and Miss Horne's former manager, Dorothy Huttenback.

The Thomas Tiltons will come from San Francisco, and Gordon Getty's attendance awaits the production schedule of his opera in the new Bay City music center complex. Benefactor Kathryn Partridge of Santa Barbara and Professor Michael Fells, USC chairman for the vocal arts department, and Mrs. Fells also will attend.

The occasion, Katherine Bentley tells us, supports scholarships.

On another musical front, the Los Angeles Master Chorale is hosting luncheon today at La Couronne in Pasadena to launch "Casino Chorale," its 1985 benefit.

Girl Scouts found a good reason to visit Cheryl Miller, Olympic gold medalist: they surprised her with Girl Scout cookies, and she agreed to be honorary chairman of the Cookie Sale.

It all becomes official Thursday at a kickoff during the USC-UCLA women's basketball game at the Sports Arena. Several hundred Girl Scouts and friends will cheer.

Those yum-yums, $2 a box, will be sold at booths throughout the Southland from Friday to March 25, and specifically at Thrifty Drug Stores on Saturday and March 16 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Stock up and freeze.

You may recall, two years ago Luminaires Juniors solved their first case: "Murder on the Orient Express." Now it's "kismet, karma or a killer in khaki" for their "Intrigue in India" Saturday evening at the top ballroom of the Sheraton-Universal.

Stone temples, towering ferns and lifelike wild animals will provide the setting for the mystery game and black-tie dinner dance. Guests will be asked to join the New Delhi superintendent of police in determining which member of Lord Cecil Proudbottom's expedition has committed the dreadful deed, natch, on a safari in the remote jungles.

As a little token of gratitude, Dunn School (Los Olivos) parent Carol Sobieski, who happens to be screenwriter of "Sylvester," suggested a preview screening as a benefit for the school's Learning Resources Center.

With the blessing of executive producer (and Santa Ynez Valley rancher) Ray Stark and the people at Columbia Pictures, the occasion becomes fact next Wednesday at the Directors' Guild Theatre.

Dunn parent George Peppard and grandparent Robert Mitchum will be honorary co-chairmen, in keeping with the family feeling.

It's in memory of Mrs. Clifford (Evie) Cherry, their former president, and that's why the St. Vincent Medical Center Auxiliary is especially dedicated to a memorial concert and dinner featuring the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra Friday evening at the Sheraton Premiere..